Joan Ravenscroft (Gibbon) Spiller (1906)

Born 1906 in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Wife of Reginald Harvey Spiller — married 4 Mar 1930 (to 1936) in Kensington, London

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Biography

Joan Ravesncroft Gibbon was born in 1906. Her father was Andrew Owen Gibbon. Her mother was Alice Mary Gibbon (maiden name not researched a this point).

At the 1911 census Joan (4) and her older sister Phyllis Mary Gibbon (7) are with their mother Alice Mary Gibbon (35 and married for 10 years) as boarders in the household of Mary Jackson (43, widow and maternity nurse) at Stretford, Lancashire.

On 4 March 1930 Joan (23) married Reginald Harvey Spiller (26) at St Barnabas church, Kensington, London. Reginald, bachelor, is an "Analytical Chemist" and was resident at Norton Hall, Norton-on-Tees, Durham. His father is confirmed as a stockbroker. Joan, spinster, was a resident at 12 St Mary Abbot's Terrace, Kensington. Her father was noted to be Andrew Owen Gibbon, electrical engineer.

In 1936 Reginald and Joan divorced. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ information provided on 29 February 2020 by Geoffrey Benjamin Harvey Spiller, son of Reginald

• England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915 for Joan Ravenscroft Gibbon, 1906, Q2-Apr-May-Jun

• 1911 England Census for Joan Ravenscroft Gibbon, Lancashire, Stretford, 12

• London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1917 for Reginald Harvey Spiller, Ealing, St John, Northfields, 1858-1913